Weird weather
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Ditto. Except for the wind. The gusts were 50+ in our neck of the woods. We had one tense day of watching the trees sway around us, but after that it was fine.
Watch for floods out there - don't drive through any standing water - and send some of that rain our way, would ya? We were supposed to get over a quarter of an inch of rain yesterday and all we got was enough to barely wet down the dust and fail to register on the rain gauges.
It’s the third straight day of rain for us here, too.
And we’re supposed to get three more.
—Patrick
Oh how quaint. A few grackles.
I was expecting something more like this, from my own memory of Houston grackles:
Seriously, it's like Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds in Houston during grackle season.
GasBandit
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My camera did not adequately capture it (I think its self color correction is to blame), but I filmed that tree specifically because every single conceivable perching spot was full of grackle. I was surprised branches were not snapping.
But the fall is just starting. I'm sure in a few days our power lines will be bird-saturated, too. Generally the parking lots around here don't get grackled TOO much, I think they get run over.
One of the parks here in Mesa was full of birds feeding on whatever was coming up from the grass as I was driving by this morning.
ION - Holy COW when it rains here in the Valley, does it RAIN. I literally had to get off the freeway for fear that I'd turn my bus into a yellow water-propelled rocket.
ION - Holy COW when it rains here in the Valley, does it RAIN. I literally had to get off the freeway for fear that I'd turn my bus into a yellow water-propelled rocket.
What I find funny about grackles, is that they imitate car alarm sounds, and door indicator sounds.
Day 4 of Hurricane in the Desert: it was drizzling a bit until just before I got back to the yard with my bus. I saw a nice double rainbow... and then the skies opened up.
TIL drainage in Arizona consists of a cement v-shaped "rut" in between angled sections of parking, until it flows into a small pond next to the road, where it takes forever to drain into a "storm sewer" (their words, not mine). Half of our staff parking lot was under water (the half closest to the road, btw).
TIL drainage in Arizona consists of a cement v-shaped "rut" in between angled sections of parking, until it flows into a small pond next to the road, where it takes forever to drain into a "storm sewer" (their words, not mine). Half of our staff parking lot was under water (the half closest to the road, btw).
We got three inches of hail back in June and my whole street was a river for 30 minutes after.
And I don't know how you haven't heard the term storm sewer or storm drain before. It's a pretty common thing.
Yeah, but it's a bit more critical for those two (especially Poe).
Yeah, I know about it. We'll see what happens
Yup, already talks about us being out for a few more days are going on. Forecasts say we may still be seeing 50+mph winds.
<---- lives in South Carolina and in the center of the "cone of uncertainty"
And as a quick aside, is it me or does "Cone of Uncertainty" sound like some goofy gadget from Get Smart?
<---- lives in South Carolina and in the center of the "cone of uncertainty"
And as a quick aside, is it me or does "Cone of Uncertainty" sound like some goofy gadget from Get Smart?
Huh. I had expected it to be much more of a rain event for you than a wind event. (Not that that is a trivial thing after Florence.)
And, yeah, Get Smart for sure.
They are forecasting only like 4-6 inches of rain last I heard. We get that during a summer downpour. It can still cause issues, don't get me wrong, but the wind rating seemed to be the focal point of recent weather reports.
Is that the same guy Jimi Hendrix kissed?
Just checking in, storm passed over us and left us alone. No damage to my property. Hope everyone else is ok as well.
There is a thunderstorm training just north of me. I've been watching lightning out my back windows for at least 2 hours. Constant lightning. I feel bad for whoever is under that storm.
5 Hours later, there is still lightning to the north, and it still hasn't rained here yet.
Is it still called Indian Summer if it happens starting mid-October? Either way, I'm liking the forecast for the rest of the month - mid 70s to low 80s, plenty of sun, and blue skies; and then snow immediately after, if you're too close to the Siskiyous. The farmers down here are loving it.